More than $2 million, or about 80% of the total, were lost in the silk industry.
The silk industry in the Colonies never became very large.
During the second half of the 19th Century, the silk industry grew important in the town.
According to oral history, the name came from an enterprise to create a silk industry in the early 19th century.
This disease was devastating the French silk industry at the time.
In the 1880s, the area became the center of the nation's silk industry.
Then, in the 18th and 19th Century, the silk industry entered the village.
Ten thousand workers and technicians worked in the natural silk industry.
The business was a leader in the silk industry and one of its most recognized names.
He started the growth of the silk industry in Mysore.